State v. Doherty

TUCKETT, Justice:

The defendant was found guilty of the crime of grand larceny and he was thereafter sentenced to he incarcerated in the Utah State Prison. From the verdict and the judgment of the court defendant appealed.

On November 17, 1971, the defendant and one Clyde Cregger, who is named as the co-defendant in the information, entered a store in Murray, Utah, where the theft is alleged to have occurred. The two men were observed in the vicinity of a gun case and one of the store employees heard the gun case open and observed Cregger putting a pistol in his coat pocket. Cregger was pursued…